Ta-da, you're done! Pg is now built on your OSX machine and ready to be initialized.

For completeness, here's the initialization procedure as well:

Create a postgres user

sudo bash

mkdir -p /usr/local/pgsql/data

chown -R postgres /usr/local/pgsql/data

su postgres

/usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data

/usr/local/pgsql/bin/psql

CREATE USER your_user_name WITH PASSWORD 'fooBar';

CREATE DATABASE your_user_name;

That's it. You may want to add some or all of the following to a .profile, .bashrc, or other file that gets run at login, just to save yourself some typing or make link files available, but it shouldn't be strictly necessary:

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